CAESAR: Computer Animated Episodes using Single Axis Rotation was the major advance in terms of computer animation. It produced animated figures as good as anybody else worldwide with only the National Film Board of Canada being competitive.
A good description of the system is by Dave Holman on the Scanimate site.
The film shown below is an excerpt from a Navajo Coyote Tales: From Legend to Film showing CAESAR in action producing a film of one of the Coyote stories.
CAESAR in Action